This looks like a decent phone for people who need a physical keyboard for texting, e-mail, typing or playing action games like Temple Run and Subway Surfer in portrait/vertical mode.
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This looks like a decent phone for people who need a physical keyboard for texting, e-mail, typing or playing action games like Temple Run and Subway Surfer in portrait/vertical mode.
So this a new phone from blackberry?
An Android smartphone with a physical keyboard? I don't really see this being very popular in this day and age. The reason why business people liked Blackberry phones with a physical keyboard was partly because of the Blackberry OS. It was designed to be used with a physical keyboard. Now it's just Android OS...
Yes, it is a new phone from Blackberry. But, this phone runs a modified version of Google Android where Blackberry claim to make it more secure, and private than the regular version of Android, and some Custom Android ROMs.
There are some business people and richer users who use more than one smartphone. Blackberry claims to make Android on Blackberry phones more secure, and private to use compared to using the regular version of Android which come on smartphones by other brands.
The physical keyboard maybe popular with phone users who mostly type text on their phone. The advantages of physical keyboards is that you do not have to look at the screen once you are good enough at typing on a small keyboard, and physical keyboards are not slippery like glass on a touchscreen. Your screen will also have less fingerprints because you use a physical keyboard to type text.
Blackberry probably is not making a lot of phones with keyboards these days, and will probably make enough phones for people who want the phones based on consumer surveys by mobile research companies on how many people still want a phone with a physical keyboard.
Blackberry has security software, and services which it sells, and sales of smartphones is not their only way to make money.
You really think that they're doing consumer surveys? If they had, they wouldn't have discontinued their OS in the first place. There were thousands of users complaining about it on the Crackberry forums and many other online communities, but Blackberry didn't care about them.
Blackberry most likely does some consumer surveys and research like most companies have a marketing department which job is to find out what most users want, and advertise a companies products.
Blackberry may still be somewhat successful as a small Android phone maker like Blu and RCA which don't sell a lot of phones compared to Samsung and Apple, but still manages to stay in business selling their smartphones and tablets.
Blackberry 10 last update was 2 month ago according to BlackBerry 10 - Wikipedia.
Blackberry OS is still supported because BB10 is still releasing some updates for its OS instead of totally discontinuing the OS where no updates are release at all.
But, most of the updates are related to security and fixing software problems for BB10 according to Wikipedia.
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Eh, really unsure of this. It's obviously aimed at business people. The phone is smart and the keyboard is likely a good selling point for those in the business environment. But the hardware seems relatively under powered? Seems like that could slow down business which would be a turn off for this phone.
The hardware looks under powered, but this Blackberry phone may not come with as many un-needed apps and bloatware apps like other phone makers like Samsung and LG which phones and bundled apps are designed for regular consumers. Bundled apps and bloatware can slow down phones which are faster, and have better specs. Blackberry probably made modifications to Android like other Android Custom ROMs like Lineage Android to make it run faster and more securely on the Keynote's Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 octacore 2.0 GHz CPU, 3GB RAM, and Adreno 506 GPU chip on the Keynote, so the phone run at a fast speed even if it's parts are slower than other Android and iOS smartphones.
Hardware specs source : BlackBerry KEYone Specs and Features
I bet, Blackberry may release more powerful versions of the Keynote if there is a good demand for users who need more performance.
I think most of Keynote phone users will mainly use it for typing text, voice and video calls, and editing document files, so a very powerful phone may not be needed. Security and privacy is more important to business and government workers. A lot of business workers carry around powerful tablets, and laptops, so not owning a very powerful phone may not be a big deal with users who already carry around powerful tablets and laptops.
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